In total, 15 businesses were inspected. Three businesses sold alcohol to a minor for a non-

compliance rate of 20 percent. All of the businesses checked the minor’s ID.

The businesses which failed the inspections were:

Bella Italia – Cozad (checked ID, sold to minor)

El Paraiso – Cozad (checked ID, sold to minor)

Casey’s General Store #2068 – Lexington (checked ID, sold to minor)

The inspections were conducted at liquor stores, convenience stores, restaurants, and bars.

Businesses that sell alcohol to a minor are referred to the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission.

Clerks who sell alcohol to a minor are cited for procuring alcohol for a minor.

NSP and other law enforcement agencies conduct these inspections in an effort to keep alcohol

out of the hands of minors.

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17-Dec-2018 / NSP release

DECEMBER 17, 2018 (NORTH PLATTE, NEB.) — During the evening hours of Friday, December 14, Investigators with the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) conducted alcohol inspections in Furnas County. The inspections were held at restaurants, liquor stores, bars, grocery stores, bowling alleys, and convenience stores.

A total of 17 businesses were inspected. Five of those businesses sold alcohol to a minor for a non-compliance rate of 29 percent. All of the businesses checked the minor’s ID.

The businesses which failed the inspections are:

Eagle Convenience Store #14 – Arapahoe

Stanley’s Spirits – Beaver City

Anew Travel Center - Cambridge

Casey’s General Store #2709 – Cambridge

Ho Jo’s Hideaway – Holbrook

Businesses that sell alcohol to a minor are referred to the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission. Clerks who sell alcohol to a minor to cited for procuring alcohol for a minor.

This operation was made possible thanks in part to a grant from Region 3 Behavioral Health Services. NSP performs these inspections in an effort to keep alcohol out of the hands of minors.

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30-Jan-2019 / Nebraska State Patrol

JANUARY 23, 2019 (NORTH PLATTE, NEB.) — During the evening hours of Friday, January 18, Investigators with the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) conducted alcohol inspections in Keith County.

This project was supported in whole or part by grant #93.959 under the SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Region II Human Services, and DHHS Division of Behavioral Health.

In total, 15 businesses were checked. One of the businesses sold alcohol to a minor for a non-compliance rate of 7 percent. All of the businesses checked the minor’s ID.

The business which failed the inspection was:

Fat Dogs – Ogallala (checked ID, sold to minor)

The businesses include liquor stores, convenience stores, restaurants, and bars. Businesses that fail the inspections are referred to the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission. Clerks who sell alcohol to a minor are cited for procuring alcohol for a minor.

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01-Oct-2018 / NSP release

(NORTH PLATTE, NEB.) — During the evening hours of Friday, September 28, investigators with the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) conducted alcohol inspections in Lincoln County.

This project was supported in whole or part by grant # 93.959 under the SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Region II Human Services, and the Nebraska DHHS Division of Behavioral Health.

In total, 12 businesses were inspected, with none selling alcohol to a minor for a compliance rate of 100%. The businesses included liquor stores, convenience stores, restaurants, and bars in Brady and North Platte.

NSP conducts these inspections in an effort to keep alcohol out of the hands of minors.

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18-Oct-2018 / NSP release

OCTOBER 17, 2018 (SCOTTSBLUFF, NEB.) — The Nebraska State Patrol (NSP), working with the Gering Police Department, Scottsbluff Police Department, Scotts Bluff County Sheriff’s Office, and Monument Prevention Coalition, has conducted alcohol inspections in Scotts Bluff County. The inspections were held on Saturday, October 13.

A total of 66 businesses were inspected. Two of those businesses sold alcohol to a minor. The overall compliance rate was 97 percent.

The businesses which sold alcohol to a minor were:

Goonies Sports Bar & Grill – Gering

Rosita’s – Scottsbluff

A business that fails the inspections is referred to the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission. Clerks who sell alcohol to a minor are cited for procuring alcohol for a minor.

The Nebraska State Patrol and partner law enforcement agencies conduct these inspections across Nebraska in an effort to keep alcohol out of the hands of youth.

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28-Dec-2018 / Hometown Family Radio

How’d It Happen

Back in May of 2018 a phone call was made to Kenny Ogier of Wallace from Carla Beck of Hometown Family Radio. The Phone call was made for two reasons. One, to congratulate Ogier on his new business venture "Knucklehead's Garage" which he was running out of a shop on his farm; and Two, to see if Kenny, who Carla knew was an avid Rock 100.7 radio listener would like to sponsor a daily request hour on the radio station. Ogier, has said that the phone call made his day. He couldn’t believe that a radio station in North Platte “cared about his little shop” south of Wallace. Kenny jumped at the opportunity to sponsor a show on “His” favorite radio station. That also opened the door for another idea. Carla jokingly asked “what do you think about building a bike for Rock 100?” Ken replied that “he and his builders had already discussed that idea” and that they really wanted to if they could find a way to pay for the hard costs of a build.

The Raffle

Two weeks after that conversation, Beck phoned Ogier again and said “how about we build a bike and raffle it off for a local non-profit group?” Beck noting that they should be able to sell more than enough raffle tickets to not only cover Knucklehead’s Garage material costs, but also be able to support the community by making a generous contribution to whomever was selected. At the end of the conversation, Ogier said “Let’s Do This!”

The Build

Work started almost immediately on picking out a frame for the bike, and choosing which accessories it would have. Earlier in the year, Ogier and some of his team had taken a road trip to the west coast. Unbeknownst to them at the time, they would be picking many of the future parts for Scarlett. They would fit the bike with an Indian Larry gas tank, a Jesse James Fender and of course a Harley Davidson power plant. The Knuckleheads were adamant the bike needed an “old school” look. Mission Accomplished!

The Unveil

Saturday, August 4th. The Bike didn’t yet have a name, and still didn’t have her custom rims and tires, but she was built and August 4th had already been the day selected to unveil her to the public. Yes, we keep referring to the bike as a “She”; that’s a Knucklehead’s Tradition to name ALL their builds after pretty ladies. This Bike was no exception. A little after 6pm on this cloudy late afternoon day the crowd at The Platte Bar in North Platte got to see her for the first time as employee and builder Rob Durfee rode “Scarlett” into the bar’s beer garden. Tickets were immediately available for purchase for the raffle to win the bike. That night alone almost 200 tickets had been purchased to win the bike.

Scarlett got her name the week after the unveiling when ROCK 100 listeners made nominations for a name on the stations Facebook Page. The ROCK 100 staff and Knuckleheads Garage decided on the name from those suggestions.

Guardians Of The Children

“The Guardians were the first name brought up when this idea hatched”, according to Derek Beck, manager at ROCK 100. “We knew we wanted to help children, we really wanted to partner with a biker organization since we were building and giving away a motorcycle. It Just made sense.” The Guardians would help sell raffle tickets at many of the ROCK 100 events that would follow in the next few month. In return, their organization would receive a substantial split of the raffle money to use towards their Mission in the future. “Many people that were not bikers, or even owned a motorcycle bought raffle tickets because they wanted to contribute to what the Guardians stood for” Derek Beck said.

The Giveaway

On Wednesday, December 12, 100 names from the box that held All The Raffle Tickets were drawn at Great Western Bank, who served as the Title Sponsor of the Giveaway on ROCK 100. “We were surprised a few names were pulled out of the raffle box twice” said Shari Cecil, who also works for ROCK 100 as a Marketing Consultant. “I guess we shouldn’t have been surprised, some people spent over $200 on raffle tickets at once”. The Raffle tickets were $20 per ticket. The people who had their names drawn were personally invited to the final drawing which was also held at The Platte Bar in North Platte on Saturday, December 15th.

Most of the qualifiers were present for the announcement of the winner, but you did not have to be present to win. When Derek Beck and Miss Knuckle, Michelle James, drew the winning raffle ticket. It was Jake Dancer of Sutherland. Jake was not present, but was watching on ROCK 100’s Facebook Live Feed at the time.

The Donation

After hard expenses to build Scarlett, the Knuckleheads Garage and ROCK 100 made a $5,977 donation to the Flatrock Chapter of Guardians Of The Children on Friday, December 28. “We want to thank the Guardians, Great Western Bank and all of the local businesses this fall that hosted Scarlett as we tried to raise as much money as we could for the Guardians” Derek Beck said after the check presentation. “And Thank You To Kenny Ogier and his guys at Knuckleheads Garage for all the work they put in on this project. We were able to pay for all the parts and still make a nice donation to an amazing North Platte area organization.” Beck says that they are already planning a similar giveaway next year. “We’re planning a summer promotion around a NEW bike that the Knuckleheads are already building. We are going to start a search inquiry in the next few weeks to select the 2019 beneficiary of the proceeds. We would ideally like to contribute to a different organization every year as long as we’re fortunate to have a great partner like Knuckleheads Garage and Great Western Bank.”

Because of this successful promotion, Knuckleheads outgrew their shop in Wallace in the short 4 months of this promotion and now have a new North Platte location located just South of Wyman’s Welding off of East 4th Street.

To Be Continued in 2019...

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19-Nov-2018 / KUVR News

Bertrand, NE - One person is dead following a single vehicle accident near Bertrand on Sunday.

The Nebraska State Patrol says a pickup truck traveling east on Highway 23 rolled several times after entering the ditch at the intersection of Highway 23 and Road E. The driver, 18 year-old Ty Bryan Bowman of Arapahoe, was killed when he was ejected from the vehicle. Bowman was the sole occupant of the vehicle.

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11-Jan-2019 / United Way PR

Scottsbluff – Arby’s Foundation presented a very generous donation of $4,000 to United Way of Western Nebraska, specific to helping fight hunger in our communities and to help sponsor the 6th annual Day of Caring Food Packaging event to be held October 2019.

Due to the rising numbers of food insecure families requesting assistance in our communities the past two years, United Way plans to increase the number of meals they package during the 2019 packaging event in order to meet more of the community’s needs. Each year approximately 200 community volunteers have packaged 60,000 meals (10,000 packages) of shelf-stable, microwaveable, fortified meals that all stay here in our communities to help feed food insecure families.

The generous $4,000 donation from Arby’s Foundation is a great start to the United Way’s efforts of raising the funds needed to host the 2019 Day of Caring Food Packaging event and will pay for approximately 18,000 of the 70,000 meals they plan to package this year. All meals packaged at the event stay in our communities and are distributed by local programs who are serving families in need. The meals are distributed through 5 local school district backpack programs, local food pantries, soup kitchens and disaster relief programs like Firefighters Ministry and Diaper Depot.

Funding for this event is raised through grants and donations specific to the project so as not to affect the annual United Way campaign fundraising efforts which helps support non-profit partner agencies providing services to families in need in our communities.

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04-Mar-2019 / Scottsbluff PD

On 03/03/2019 Officers responded to a call of lewd and lascivious conduct in the stairwell of the apartments located at 19 W19th Street. Upon arrival officers made contact with individuals at that location. During the contact a male later identified as Jesse Smith pushed the door shut and would not allow officers into the apartment complex. At this point Smith began making threats to law enforcement and officers began to evacuate occupants from the building. Officers from Gering Police Department, Scottsbluff County Sheriff’s department and the Nebraska State Patrol arrived on scene to assist. Smith then retreated from the stairwell into his apartment and would not comply with Officers commands to exit the apartment. After the apartments had been evacuated a decision to enter Smiths apartment was made. Officers entered the apartment and Smith was taken into custody without further incident. Smith was transported to the Scotts Bluff County Detention Center where he was charged with Terroristic Threats and Obstructing a police office

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30-Oct-2018 / Sheriff Kapperman

Sheriff Kapperman advises that on October 28 th , 2018 at approximately 1:30 p.m theFurnas County Sheriff’s Office received a report of terroristic threats
at 720 7 th Street,Beaver City, Nebraska. The reporting party stated that Mark Hutchens, 56, of BeaverCity, Nebraska had fired a b.b gun at her and
threatened to burn her house down. Anarrest warrant was filed for Mr. Hutchens for Third degree assault in a menacing manner

and terroristic threats, along with a search warrant for the b.b gun.The arrest warrant and search warrant were granted by Furnas County Court and
signed. Entry was made into the residence of Mark and Jennifer Hutchens, 38, of Beaver City,Nebraska. During the execution of the search warrant
for the b.b gun, methamphetamineand drug paraphernalia was located along with a shotgun. A second search warrant was obtained to search the residence
for drugs, drug paraphernalia and other weapons. Mr. Hutchens is a felon and is prohibited from owning firearms. Additional items of drug paraphernalia,
methamphetamine, marijuana and multiple firearms and knives were located in the residence. Jennifer Hutchens was arrested for one count of possession
of a control substance (methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. Mark Hutchens was arrested for the

arrest warrant and the additional charges of possession of a control substance (methamphetamine), possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a
deadly weapon by a prohibited person and possession of less than one ounce of marijuana.Both Mr. and Mrs. Hutchens appeared in the Furnas County
Court and were arraigned on all charges on Monday, October 29 th , 2018, they are due back for preliminary hearing on Monday, November 05 th ,
2018. Mr. Hutchens bond was set at $30,000 subject to 10% and Mrs. Hutchens bond was set at $5,000 subject to 10%. At the time of this press release
Mrs. Hutchens has bonded out of jail and Mr. Hutchens remains in custody.